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Motherless Brooklyn

Blu-ray Review: Motherless Brooklyn

A film he’s wanted to make since buying up the movie rights since before Jonathan Lessem’s novel was published in 1999, Edward Norton wrote, directed and starred in Motherless Brooklyn. Set in 1950’s New York City, Lionel Essrog (Norton) is…

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4K UHD Review: The Hunt For Red October

[Editor’s Note: This film is currently only available in the U.S. in the Jack Ryan 5-Film Collection in 4K, but it will no doubt be released by itself internationally and domestically at some point in the future, thus we are…

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Concussion (Blu-ray)

America loves football. The NFL rules Sundays. Therefore, Concussion, a film that suggests that the sport lied to fans for years about the dangers of playing football, was going to have trouble attracting an audience regardless of how well constructed…

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Still Alice (Blu-ray)

Julianne Moore has long been considered one of the finest actresses working today. Whether playing a 1970’s pornography actress in Boogie Nights, an unhappy mid-20th century housewife in Far from Heaven, or Sarah Palin in Game Change, she becomes the…

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The Shadow (Collector’s Edition) (Blu-ray)

Based on the very popular 1930’s radio character, original comic books, and several pulp novels, The Shadow stars Alec Baldwin as Lamont Cranston, the crime fighter “who learned in the Orient the power to cloud men’s minds so they cannot…

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Rock of Ages

Blu-ray Review: Rock of Ages

Rock of Ages was a surprise hit on Broadway; a show with a real sing-along quality that wasn’t afraid to make fun of itself while paying homage to 80’s hair metal. Unfortunately, the recent film version seems to lack some…

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